N.S.W. TOTE COMMISSION.
TOTE WILL NOT BREED BETTER MEN.
Sydney, May I'3.
Before the Totalisator Commission, Mr. Wools Rutledge, a Methodist clergyman, was examined. He did not think that tha totalisator would improve the breed of horses. Even if it. did it would not breed a better class of men. It would make the State a participator in the vice of gambling. There was also a danger of an increase in gambling because it would give an air of respectability which it did not possess today. He knew a Sunday school where Tattersail’s sweeps were subscribed for. Messrs. John Whitworth and Thomas Cotter. New Zealanders, favoured bookmakers, the latter because under the totalisator the punter would bet in the dark, and also because it bred betting in shops* at totalisator odds.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 127, 14 May 1912, Page 5
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